Blaine Mercado
Software Engineer at Lyft
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBlaine Mercado is a seasoned software engineer based in Seattle with a decade of experience building mobile and backend systems, currently contributing to Lyft after impactful stints at Microsoft on Teams and telemetry platforms. He brings deep iOS expertise in Swift and Objective-C, plus production-scale data and analytics skills (Azure Data Explorer, Kusto, SuperSet) used to diagnose, instrument, and improve product reliability. Blaine has led SDK design for high-throughput client telemetry, migrated telemetry tooling, and integrated complex third-party workforce systems while navigating security and compliance constraints. A former recruiter and manager, he pairs technical problem-solving with strong cross-team communication, empathy, and coaching—skills he’s practiced coaching youth sports and training new hires. Known as the resident data expert on multiple teams, he blends product-focused thinking with an insistence on testing and observability to deliver quality experiences.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Coding DojoAA General Studies, AA General Studies at Walla Walla Community CollegeBachelor of Arts (B.A.) English, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) English at Whitman College
Github Skills (27)
ios10
swift10
macos10
objective-c9
ipados9
xcode9
cocoapods9
appcenter9
carthage8
sdk8
crash8
tvos7
watchos7
leancloud7
swiftui6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
blainemercado/black_python
Jul 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:1 PR, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
blainemercado/RaiseAttention
Dec 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:30 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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